Philadelphia Council for Writing Program Administrators (PWPA) Fall Meeting/Conference Call for Proposals September 21, 2012 Holy Family University Philadelphia, PA 19114 Conference Theme: Metacognition: Learning to Read/Write and Reading/Writing to Learn Given recent research in neuroscience, metacognition, or thinking about thinking, has sparked renewed interest among literacy theorists, scholars, and …

On Thursday and Friday, April 19 and 20, Temple University’s Institute on Disabilities and PWPA hosted the Spring conference, “Disability and the Teaching of Writing.” Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Cabrini College, the event began the evening of the 19th at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, where several folks …

PWPA is happy to announce the publication of Eli Goldblatt’s newest book, Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography (Southern Illinois University, 2012). Here is a description of the text from the publisher’s Web site: In this engrossing memoir, poet and literacy scholar Eli Goldblatt shares the intimate ways reading and writing influenced the …

Please join us for a free, one day regional conference on Disability and the Teaching of Writing on Friday, April 20th at the Howard Gittis Student Center, Temple University. Keynote speakers include Brenda Brueggemann and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, editors of Disability and the Teaching of Writing. Lunch is provided and will feature poetry …

Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, marked the PWPA’s second annual PWPA social. Held at Tir Na Nog in Philadelphia, the event gathered many folks from institutions in the greater Philly area for an evening of good conversation (not all “talking shop”) and tasty apps. It was a perfect kind of low-key Friday …

PWPA’s annual social event will be held on Friday, February 17, 5-7pm. The event will take place at Tir Na Nog, at 1600 Arch Street in Center City, Philadelphia. Please join us for some spirits, appetizers, and warm conversation and networking. We hope to see you all there!

The rain couldn’t keep a marvelous attendance at the PWPA’s first meeting of the year. The membership gathered on Friday, September 23, for its Fall meeting at Ursinus College to discuss writing-intensive pedagogy and administration. Lori Salem (Temple University) opened the day-long conference with her down-to-earth talk about the benefits …

The next PWPA Meeting will be held at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA on Friday, September 23rd. The meeting will focus on writing-intensive pedagogy and administration. Here is the current schedule for the meeting. In addition to the wonderful PWPA members who will be presenting, we will have Gerald Graff …